You get talent when you discover the ground of your pain.

Some people say my work is often depressing and pessimistic, with the emphasis on death, blood, overcrowding, strange beings and so on, but I don't really think it is.

In an age in which the classic words of the Surrealists— 'As beautiful as the unexpected meeting, on a dissecting table, of a sewing machine and an umbrella'—can become reality and perfectly achievable with an atom bomb, so too has there been a surge of interest in biomechanoids

You know I was curious - I was interested in all kinds of mystery or deeper meanings in the paintings because I myself have not analyzed why they have turned out like this or like that.

There is hope and a kind of beauty in there somewhere, if you look for it.

You get talent when you discover the ground of your pain.

You know, it was just another presentation of my work, and a funny one, because the cards are quite different from the normal Tarot deck, no?